New Essays on Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy
Author: Wade L. Robison
Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781933360638
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Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy
Author: J. B. Schneewind
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0199563012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →J.B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relation to earlier thinkers.
Developing Deontology
Author: Brad Hooker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-02-23
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 1118321251
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Developing Deontology consists of six new essays in ethical theory by leading contemporary moral philosophers. Each essay considers concepts prominent in the development of deontological approaches to ethics, and these essays offer an invaluable contribution to that development. Essays are contributed by Michael Smith, Philip Stratton-Lake, Ralph Wedgewood, David Owens, Peter Vallentyne, and Elizabeth Harman - all leading contemporary moral philosophers Each essay offers an original and previously unpublished contribution to the subject A significant addition to the field for anyone with an interest in the development of deontology The collection is edited by a leading philosophical scholar
Personal Autonomy
Author: James Stacey Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-01-10
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781139442718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Autonomy has recently become one of the central concepts in contemporary moral philosophy and has generated much debate over its nature and value. This 2005 volume brings together essays that address the theoretical foundations of the concept of autonomy, as well as essays that investigate the relationship between autonomy and moral responsibility, freedom, political philosophy, and medical ethics. Written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in these areas, this book represents research on the nature and value of autonomy that will be essential reading for a broad swathe of philosophers as well as many psychologists.
Moral Skepticism
Author: Diego E. Machuca
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-08-14
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780367594237
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Moral skepticism is at present a vibrant topic of philosophical inquiry. Particularly since the turn of the millennium, the debates between moral skeptics of various stripes and their opponents have gained renewed force not only by taking account of innovative ideas in moral philosophy, but also by drawing on novel positions in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language as well as on recent findings in empirical sciences. As a result, new arguments for and against moral skepticism have been devised, while the traditional ones have been reexamined. This collection of original essays will advance the ongoing debates about various forms of moral skepticism by discussing such topics as error theory, disagreement, constructivism, non-naturalism, expressivism, fictionalism, and evolutionary debunking arguments. It will be a valuable resource for academics and advanced students working in metaethics and moral philosophy more generally.
Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions
Author: Ferdinand David Schoeman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780521339513
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New Essays in Moral Philosophy
Author: Ellen F. Paul
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-08
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1107634199
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Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780195074857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical issues; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and styles; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledge. Nussbaum investigates and defends a conception of ethical understanding which involves emotional as well as intellectual activity, and which gives a certain type of priority to the perception of particular people and situations rather than to abstract rules. She argues that this ethical conception cannot be completely and appropriately stated without turning to forms of writing usually considered literary rather than philosophical. It is consequently necessary to broaden our conception of moral philosophy in order to include these forms. Featuring two new essays and revised versions of several previously published essays, this collection attempts to articulate the relationship, within such a broader ethical inquiry, between literary and more abstractly theoretical elements.
Virtues in Action
Author: M. Austin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-10-10
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1137280298
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent decades, many philosophers have considered the strengths and weaknesses of a virtue-centered approach to moral theory. Much less attention has been given to how such an approach bears on issues in applied ethics. The essays in this volume apply a virtue-centered perspective to a variety of contemporary moral issues, and in so doing offer a fresh and illuminating perspective. Some of the essays focus on a particular virtue and its application to one or more realms of applied ethics, such as temperance and sex or humility and environmental ethics. Other chapters focus on an issue in applied ethics and bring several virtues into a discussion of that issue or realm of life, such as sport, education, and business. Finally, several of the chapters engage relevant psychological research as well as current neuroscience, which enhances the strength of the philosophical arguments.
Vulnerability
Author: Catriona Mackenzie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0199316651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume breaks new ground by investigating the ethics of vulnerability. Drawing on various ethical traditions, the contributors explore the nature of vulnerability, the responsibilities owed to the vulnerable, and by whom.
